Jane Badler Quotes

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

My music is like my freedom space.

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that's a team effort. It's not just me, it's everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that's all me.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

My music has always been my solo project.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'

Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.

The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.